Promina, Croatia

Promina
—  Municipality  —
Promina
Coordinates: 43°57′02.16″N 16°04′55.92″E
Country	Croatia
County	Šibenik-Knin county
Government
• Mayor	Paul Cota (---)
Population (2001)
• Total	1,109
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)

Promina is a municipality in Šibenik-Knin county, Croatia. Oklaj is the administration centre of the municipality.

Population

In the 2011 census, it had the following settlements:

• Bobodol, population 22
• Bogatić, population 20
• Čitluk, population 113
• Lukar, population 77
• Ljubotić, population 26
• Matase, population 51
• Mratovo, population 55
• Oklaj, population 461
• Puljane, population 51
• Razvođe, population 169
• Suknovci, population 61

In the 2001 census, 96.89% declared themselves Croats.

In the 1991 census, 2,574 residents lived in Promina district, of which 85 per cent Croats and 14 per cent Serbs.

History

In the Croatian War of Independence, members of Serb (ir)regular units ("Chetniks") and irregular SAO Krajina Militia or Martić's Unit, along with the soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army 9th Corps from Knin occupied Promina, and forcibly displaced cca 2,000 Croatian civilians. The remaining population of Croatian nationality was terrorized. Members of the occupying self-proclaimed authorities placed explosive devices (mines, hand grenades...) at places where they expected the passage of Croatian civilians (in front of houses and barns, in gardens, in hay-stacks...). Croatian owned family houses were ransacked daily, Croatian owned property looted. Croatian male civilians were groundlessly taken to Knin and imprisoned. After months of imprisonment, some of them were released, and then they were arrested again and returned to the Knin prison. Most of the Croatian owned family houses were looted, and then blown up or burnt down.

Five Catholic churches were set on fire and destroyed in Promina, one church was devastated. 36 Croatian civilians were killed in the period between September 1991 and December 1993.

Notable people

• Ivan Aralica-novelist and writer